The Windsor High School principal says he may start videotaping all school assemblies in the wake of last week’s controversial presentation by a Wyoming police officer.

The officer reportedly displayed some students’ MySpace pages and called them “slutty” and said they would invite sexual predators.

Cheyenne police Officer John Gay also supposedly singled out at least one student and said a sexual predator would masturbate to her picture and then later “tear her apart.”

Gay denied he ever said those things. An eight-year member of the Cheyenne Police Department, Gay was invited to talk at Windsor High about Internet safety.

He said he displayed MySpace pages that were open to public viewing to show how easily a sexual predator could get a student’s telephone number and class schedule.

“I would never show a student’s picture to an inmate,” Gay said last week. “I would never knowingly put a child in danger.”

Principal Rick Porter said he talked to teachers present at Gay’s talk and they essentially backed the officer’s version. Still, said Porter, the incident embarrassed and humiliated many students who were at the presentations.

Videotaping will offer a clearer picture of what goes on at assemblies when he isn’t there, said Porter, who was not at Gay’s talk.

“I just think it’s a good idea all around,” Porter said. “In these situations, you try and learn from them.”

Porter also posted a letter on the school’s website, apologizing for the incident.

“The objective of the assembly the first day of school was to focus on the safety of our students,” Porter said. “Some students were embarrassed, and that was not our intention.

“Students, staff, parents, and community members,” Porter said, “please accept my sincerest heartfelt apologies if you were embarrassed or offended by the presentation.”

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